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Your search found 391 taxa.
Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
Look for it in disturbed areas, the leaves (up to 30 m in length!) climbing into the canopy of trees in swamp forests and other wet habitats
Rare outside of Coastal Plain & north of SC
Non-native: east Asia
Look for it in moist forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in moist forests, cove forests
Common in Mountains, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in suburban woodlands
Rare
Non-native: Japan, China & Korea
Look for it in moist to dry forests & woodlands, esp slopes, ravines, and small stream bottomlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in disturbed areas, and to be increasingly invasive in natural habitats (esp in the southern parts of our area)
Uncommon, but increasingly invasive in natural habitats
Non-native: Asian & African tropics
Look for it in marshes, swamps, wet disturbed places
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in moist to wet, acid, organic soils, such as bogs, blackwater bottomands, pocosins
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in moist to dry soils of forests, woodlands, old fields, also on outcrops, esp of calcareous rocks, & in masonry crevices, at low to moderate elevations
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in forests, fields, pine plantations
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in dry forests & woodlands, esp on slopes & ridges, also common in certain areas as a weedy successional tree on nearly any kind of site
Common (rare in Coastal Plain), endemic to Central & Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in a wide variety of habitats in the mountains, most typically & abundantly in moist sites in ravines or coves along streams, but likely to be found in all but the driest habitats between 300 & 1500m
Common in Mountains, rare in Piedmont
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in bluffs, glades, upland forests and woodlands, pastures, old fields, roadsides, and fencerows, primarily upland, occurring most abundantly on (but by no means restricted to) circumneutral soils (including shrink-swell clays) derived from mafic or calcareous rocks
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in fresh waters of ponds, lakes, ditches, marshes, including tidal freshwater marshes
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in bogs, ditches adjacent to drained bogs, wooded seepage areas
Rare, endemic to a several-county area in sw. NC & nw. SC
Native to the Carolinas
Look for it in bogs, marshes, and - in the case of var. latifolia - swamps, farm ponds, ditches
Both varieties common in Mountains, var. pubescens rare in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in swamps, floodplains
Common (uncommon in Carolina Piedmont, rare in Carolina Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in suburban woodlands
Common in GA, uncommon in Carolina Piedmont & Coastal Plain, rare Carolina Mtns
Non-native: China & Japan
Look for it on riverbanks, streambanks, in bottomland forests, seepages & glades over mafic or calcareous rock, usually in nutrient-rich soils
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it on roadsides
Common
Non-native: southern Africa
Look for it in pastures, fields, woodland edges, roadsides
Common (uncommon in NC-SC, uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
Non-native: Europe
Look for it in disturbed areas
Common (rare in Mountains, uncommon in GA Piedmont)
Non-native: South America
Look for it in moist forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in fields, on roadsides, in disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: Europe
Look for it in upland woodlands and forests, sometimes abundant or even dominant in xeric woodlands over granite or mafic rocks in the Piedmont
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in lawns, gardens, roadsides, pastures, fields, disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: Eurasia
Look for it in lawns, on roadsides, in disturbed areas
Common (rare in GA Mountains & Coastal Plain)
Non-native: Europe
Look for it in disturbed areas, lawns, fields, less commonly in natural habitats
Common
Non-native: Europe
Look for it in disturbed areas
Uncommon south of VA
Non-native: China
Look for it in fields, disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: Eurasia
Look for it on roadsides, in fields, and disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: South America
Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common
Non-native
Look for it in moist sandy woods, swamps, sloughs, roadsides, fields, waste places, often weedy
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in dry or wet sandy soils of pinelands, fresh and brackish marshes, tidal swamps, interdune swales and ponds, riverside scour prairies, mafic fens, calcareous fens and spring marshes, rocky river shores and bars. It is also frequently planted
Common in Coastal Plain & GA Piedmont (uncommon to rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in moist sandy soil of woodland openings and ditches
Common (uncommon in Mountains, uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in disturbed areas, colonizing moist, rich soil, esp in floodplains
Common
Non-native: tropical southeast Asia
Look for it in fields, roadsides, woodland borders (of moist to dry sites, rarely in wetlands)
Common (uncommon in Mountains & GA Coastal Plain, rare in NC Mtns)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in marshes, ditches (of moist to wet sites, rarey in uplands)
Common (rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in sandhills, dry to moist soils of woodlands and openings
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in old fields, on roadbanks, disturbed sites
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in swamps, wet savannas, pine flatwoods, wet disturbed sites
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it on roadsides, in fields, waste places
Common
Non-native: Eurasia
Look for it in xeric & mesic woodlands & forests of a wide variety, powerline rights-of-way, roadbanks
Common (uncommon in Mountains south of VA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in marshes, bogs, beaver ponds, pocosins, other stagnant, aquatic situations
Common (rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in bottomlands, swamp forests, other moist to wet forests and forest edges
Common (uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in gardens, bottomlands, disturbed ground
Common
Non-native: Old World
Look for it on stream banks, canals, ditches, marshes, swamp forests, wet disturbed places
Common (uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains)
Non-native: Asia
Look for it in moist soil, marshes, margin of streams, ponds, lakes & swamps, low meadows
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in dry or moist soil along roadsides and paths, fields
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in dry-mesic to mesic forests and woodlands, bottomland and riparian forests, swamps, pond margins, bluffs, flatwoods, prairies, old fields, fencerows, pastures, roadsides.
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in dry to mesic forests and woodlands, bottomland and riparian forests, bluffs, hardwood flatwoods, pine flatwoods, prairies, old fields, fencerows, pastures, roadsides (of various habitats, including wetlands)
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in dry to mesic forests and woodlands, bottomland and riparian forests, bluffs, hardwood flatwoods, pine flatwoods, prairies, old fields, fencerows, pastures, roadsides; uncommon in wetlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in swamp forests, bogs, woodland seeps, often where submersed for at least part of the year
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in pocosins, swamp forests, wooded seeps and bogs, swamps, and other wetlands, often with groundwater influence
Common in Coastal Plain (rare Piedmont & Mtns), primarily endemic to Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in rich soils of cove forests, moist slopes, & bottomlands, usually over mafic or calcareous rocks
Common to uncommon, locally abundant (rare in SC Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in bottomland forests, mesic slopes, cove forests
Common (uncommon in Mountains, rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it . Depending on variety, it can be found in moist to dry forests and/or on roadbanks
Common to rare, depending on variety and region
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in lawns, old fields, bottomlands, forests (it is commonly cultivated)
Common to uncommon, depending on province
Non-native: Europe
Look for it . It is cultivated as an ornamental, is persistent and naturalized in lawns, old fields, suburban woodlands, and disturbed areas
Common (rare in Carolina Mountains)
Non-native: Europe
Look for it in lawns, pastures, other disturbed places
Common
Non-native: Eurasia
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